The 5th grade will study Colonial American portraits and creating their own self-portrait drawings. Why do people take modern self-portraits (and selfies)? Are the reasons similar to why people had Colonial portraits painted?
Here’s our PowerPoint for this lesson: Colonial portraits
More information on portraits:
Examples of artists’ self portraits: you might recognize a few!
And lastly, here’s one of Ms. Baird’s self-portraits:
Ms. Baird's Art Class 